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The Bookplates of G.D. Perrottet
[Bookplates]. [MUIR, H.B.]
Published by The Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1942
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Adelaide, The Wakefield Press, 1942. Octavo, 24, [1] (colophon) pages with 12 tipped-in bookplates by George Perrottet (most are printed in two or three colours, several have applied hand-colouring). Plain saddle-stapled card covers with attached overlapping wrappers (lightly soiled and faded, with minimal conservation to the head of the spine); leaves a little cockled where the bookplates are tipped in; minor signs of use (see below); a very good copy, with the bookplates in fine condition. Number 145 of 275 copies. This is the second publication of Harry Muir's Wakefield Press. Provenance: Johannes Larsen, with his small name-stamp on the title page and his pictorial bookplate on the front flap (this Australian bookplate and its artist, M.G. Wood, do not appear in Peake's 'Australian Personal Bookplates'). Larsen has placed a small red X next to twenty bookplates in the checklist of 165, and pencilled in details of the publications where some are to be found. Seller Inventory # 116234
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Title: The Bookplates of G.D. Perrottet
Publisher: The Wakefield Press, Adelaide
Publication Date: 1942
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
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The bookplates of G.D. Perrottet
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Wakefield Press, 1942
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Seller: Peter Arnold Antiquarian Booksellers, East Prahran, VIC, Australia
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, with 12 tipped-in coloured bookplates and with an additional plate loosely enclosed ; original stiffened wrappers ( a little marked). Edition limited to 275 numbered copies. Seller Inventory # ABE-1630848171028
The Bookplates of G.D. Perrottet
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Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, The Wakefield Press, 1942. Octavo, 25 pages with 12 tipped-in bookplates by George David Perrottet (most are printed in two or three colours, several have applied hand-colouring). Plain saddle-stapled card covers with attached overlapping wrappers; covers lightly creased and rubbed; light cockling to the top margin (as ever, from the mounting of the bookplates); an excellent copy. Number 42 of 275 copies. This copy is inscribed and signed by the author 'To Harry Taylor, with every good wish from H.B. Muir, 7.1.43'. The second publication of Harry Muir's Wakefield Press. Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. We have not identified the recipient; we don't know if the book was ever presented, or if it was, if it later came back into the author's possession. Seller Inventory # 133721
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The Bookplates Of G.D. Perrottet.
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Adelaide; The Wakefield Press; 1942., 1942
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Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Limited First Edition; 8vo; pp. 23; illustrated title page, tipped-in frontispiece, 11 tipped-in bookplates (nine in colour), bibliography, chronological checklist of the bookplates of G. D. Perrottet, bound in original wrapper over stiff card, chipped and lightly stained, book label of David Levine, Sydney on the verso of upper wrapper, wrapper lightly creased and browned, with a small piece torn from bottom fore-corner of upper wrapper, good copy. Limited edition of 275 copies. The second publication of the Wakefield Press. Seller Inventory # 117936
A collection of 57 bookplates by G.D. Perrottet
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Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Traces of earlier mounting (usually stamp hinges) to the reverse of ten plates, with minimal visible impact near the top edge of a few of them; overall, the collection is in fine condition. All the bookplates are recorded by Peake. George David Perrottet (1890-1971), 'although technically an amateur artist, was one of Australia's most admired and prolific bookplate designers, producing over 220 bookplates between 1929 and 1964' (Mark Ferson, in The New Australian Bookplate Society Newsletter, Number 16, March 2010). Most of the bookplates are linocuts: 52 are printed in two or more colours, 27 are signed, and one is hand-coloured. (This one is for Marcie Collett; two other bookplates are also signed by Perrottet and inscribed in pencil to her. She is better known as Marcie Muir, the pioneering bibliographer of Australian children's books, and the wife of H.B. Muir - see below.) Four plates are present in two variants (the plates for L.O. Cheever and S.V. Hagley are printed in different colours; the plate for Ruth Penfold on two different paper stocks; and the plate for Coral Elphic trimmed and untrimmed). 'All his bookplates exhibit varied qualities of excellence. Whether it be landscape, architecture, allegory, symbolism, heraldic or a purely personal motif, there is not a dull line, an insipid conception, inadequate technique; and rarely a touch of the commonplace . It was his sense of colour which did much to revive the interest in colour bookplates, and there is a pleasing softness about his plates with their blues and reds, the favourite blacks and greys. But it is in his hand-coloured examples that his sense is most manifest - several such plates are a perpetual joy to the eye' (Muir, H.B.: 'The Bookplates of G.D. Perrottet', Adelaide, The Wakefield Press, 1942, page 5). Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. [57 items]. Seller Inventory # 132822